Baseball Prospectus Book News

BP2012 Update Coming Next Week

We're currently putting the finishing touches on a supplement to Baseball Prospectus 2012 (which is available in many formats at attractive prices this year, in case you don't already have your copy). We'll be releasing the supplement via PDF (and potentially other formats) early next week. The purpose of the supplement is to include some additional material we weren't able to fit into the published version and fix a few oversights along the way. When it comes to 576-page, large-format books compiled in a matter of weeks, we've found there's always something to change. In particular, the update will include:

Complete stats and brand-new player comments for dozens of players, such as Coco Crisp, Kendrys Morales, and many very young players who didn't make Baseball Prospectus 2012

Corrections to the managerial stats in the annual and expanded manager coverage

I'm hopeful that some top 100 prospects who weren't included will be in the supplement. I'm not talking about the "very young" you have mentioned, or even about 2011 draftees with no pro experience - I can understand them being omitted. The most egregious example that springs immediately to mind is Jake Odorizzi.

It'll take probably a week to show up in the Apple store beyond Monday, but we're working on having a promotional price for BP "insiders" like yourself. We're also going to update it throughout the season, adding new material and new functions.

which annual are you thinking, stewbies? I'll have to go back and see how we did it... because I don't remember that. We did used to use Clay Davenport's defensive statistics, which center around 100, and I could see that looking like games played per position.

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Could you find some way with the update to go back and retroactively erase the Foreword? That's got to be the worst piece of writing ever to be associated with BP - BP ought to be ashamed/embarrassed that ever saw the light of day.

Yes, Ken Tremendous used to write for THE OFFICE and he created PARKS AND REC. I think it's polarizing because it's one big call back to his days running the astonishingly amazingly awesome firejoemorgan.com. If you didn't read it then, it's probably just super-weird now.

Baseball Prospectus' first-ever update to the Baseball Prospectus annual series is now available. Clutch Performer 2012 is available at no charge at http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=16285